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CNDM | UNIVERSO BARROCO EUROPA GALANTE 19/20 HILARY SUMMERS, mezzo Su registro de tres octavas ha atraído la atención de muchos compositores. Ha cantado en numerosos estrenos mundiales, incluyendo Into the Little Hill de George Benjamin en la Bastilla, París; What Next de Elliot Carter en la Staatsoper, Berlín; The Importance of Being Earnest de Gerald Barry en Londres y Nueva York y Adventures Under Ground de Alice con la Orquesta Filarmónica de Los Ángeles y con Britten Sinfonia en Londres; Le Balcon de Péter Eötvös en el Festival de Aix y Facing Goya y War Work de Michael Nyman. Hilary trabajó estrechamente con el icónico compositor y director Pierre Boulez desde 2004. Con el Ensemble Intercontemporain grabaron su obra maestra Le marteau sans maître, por la que ganó un Grammy y la interpretaron en todo el mundo. También ha cantado Le visage nuptial, Les Noces de Stravinski y Aventuras y Aventuras nouvelles de Ligeti bajo su inspiradora batuta. Solista habitual de los principales conjuntos, mantiene una estrecha relación con Christian Curnyn y la Early Opera Company, con la que ha grabado Semele, Partenope, Flavio, Serse e Il trionfo del tempo de Haendel. Otras obras barrocas destacadas son Orlando (como Medoro en la producción de Robert Carson con William Christie y Les Arts Florissants), Dido y Aeneas (como Hechicera en la producción de Deborah Warner con Les Arts Florissants) y Admeto (como Trasimede con Christophe Rousset y Les Talens Lyriques en la Ópera de Sydney) de Haendel. Hilary abarca un amplio repertorio que va desde Bach hasta Birtwistle y ha cantado más de cien veces El Mesías de Haendel. Otras obras de concierto destacadas han sido Dream of Gerontius de Elgar, Elijah de Mendelssohn, Pierrot Lunaire de Schoenberg y las Sinfonías nº2 y nº3 de Mahler. Los papeles operísticos incluyen Sorceress; Juno; Cornelia; Polinesso; Amadigi; Tisbe (La Cenerentola); Gaea (Daphne); Geneviève (Pelléas); Hippolyta; Mrs Sedley; Bianca; Mescalina (Le Grand Macabre); Tiger Lily/Mrs Darling (Peter Pan) y Miss Prism. Ha participado en numerosas bandas sonoras como: The Claim and The Libertine de Michael Nyman, The Fellowship of the Ring de Howard Shore y The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Son of Rambo y en la serie de televisión de la BBC The League of Gentlemen de Joby Talbot. Entre sus trabajos más recientes han destacado: Mother Goose en The Rake's Progress de Stravinski, en el Festival d'Aix-en-Provence y en la Ópera de los Países Bajos, y Diana Orsini en Bomarzo de Ginastera, en el Teatro Real de Madrid, Madame Dilly en On The Town de Bernstein en Hyogo y Tokio, Cornelia en Giulio Cesare con Christian Curnyn y Early Opera Company, conciertos con ORF Radio Symphony, The King's Consort, La Serenissima, Finnish Radio Symhony y Royal Stockholm Philharmonic. En la temporada 18/19 ha debutado en el Teatro alla Scala de Milán cantando el papel de Nell' en el estreno mundial de Fin de Partie de Kurtag. CENTRO NACIONAL DE DIFUSIÓN MUSICAL (CNDM) | [email protected] Página | 1 .

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